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   All pressed upon Jesus   
      
   Why did Jesus perform so many countless miracles and signs during his   
   earthly ministry? Cyril of Alexandria (376-444 AD ) wrote that these   
   signs and miracles showed that Jesus was truly God--the eternal Word   
   who was made flesh for our salvation:   
      
   [Jesus] performed very many wonderful miracles, rebuking demons,   
   delivering from incurable diseases whoever drew near to him, and   
   displaying his own most divine power. He did these works so that both   
   the Jews, who had run together to him, and those from the country of   
   the Greeks might know that Christ was not some ordinary man of those   
   in our degree but, on the contrary, God. He honored these chosen   
   disciples with the dignity of the apostolate. He was the Word that was   
   made man but retained nevertheless his own glory. “For power went   
   forth from him and healed all.” Christ did not borrow strength from   
   some other person, but being himself God by nature, even though he had   
   become flesh, he healed them all, by the demonstration of power over   
   the sick.   
   (COMMENTARY ON LUKE, HOMILY 25)   
      
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   October 11th - St. Agilbert of Paris   
   (Also known as Agilbert of Wessex)   
      
   d. 685   
      
   When Coenwalh, King of the West Saxons, had received the Christian   
   faith and baptism at the court of Anna, King of the East Angles, and   
   been restored to his dominions, there came into Wessex a certain   
   bishop called Agilbert. He was a Frank, but had been living in Ireland   
   engaged in study. Coenwalh, impressed by his learning and zeal, asked   
   him to stay there as bishop. To this St. Agilbert agreed, and he   
   showed himself an indefatigable pastor and missionary.   
      
      When in Northumbria he ordained St. Wilfrid priest; and when it was   
   decided to hold a council to decide the controversy between Roman and   
   Celtic customs, he stayed on to assist at the Synod of Whitby. At this   
   assembly he was looked on as leader of the “Roman” party and was   
   called on by King Oswy to be the first to reply to St. Colman of   
   Lindisfarne. St. Agilbert asked to be excused and named St. Wilfrid to   
   answer, because “he can explain our opinion better in English than I   
   can by an interpreter”.  This language difficulty had already been a   
   cause of serious trouble to Agilbert. After he had been bishop of the   
   West Saxons for some years, King Coenwalh, “who”, says St. Bede,   
   “understood no tongue but that of the Saxons, grew weary of that   
   bishop’s barbarous speech”. He therefore divided his kingdom into two   
   dioceses, and appointed to that which included the royal city of   
   Winchester an English bishop named Wine. Agilbert was very vexed that   
   the king should have done this without first consulting him (as he   
   well might be) and, resigning his see, he eventually returned to   
   France. In 668 he was made bishop of Paris. Wine in the meantime had   
   become bishop of London by simony, Wessex was without a bishop again,   
   and so Coenwalh asked St. Agilbert to come back. He replied that he   
   could not leave the see and flock of his own city, but sent instead   
   his nephew Eleutherius, “whom he thought worthy to be made a bishop”;   
   he was consecrated by St. Theodore of Canterbury. During St.   
   Agilbert’s French episcopate he con­secrated St. Wilfrid bishop, as is   
   narrated when treating of that saint. St. Agilbert died before the   
   year 691.   
      
   Here again Bede (see Plummer’s text and notes) is our main authority,   
   but we hear of Agilbert also in the Liber Historiae Francorum and in   
   the continuation of Fredegarius.   
      
      
   Quote:   
   "The poor exist that the rich may obtain salvation."   
   --A Desert Father   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   Either make the tree good and its fruit good: or make the tree evil,   
   and its fruit evil. For by the fruit the tree is known....A good man   
   out of a good treasure bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out   
   of an evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. (Mt. 12:33, 35)  DRB   
      
      
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   23 Ecce ego vobiscum sum--Behold I am with you.--Matt. 28:20   
      
   When we find ourselves in any danger, even a grave one, we ought not   
   to lose courage, but to trust much in the Lord; for where the peril is   
   greater, there also is greater aid from Him who chooses to be called   
   the Helper in dangers and tribulations.   
   --St. Ambrose   
      
   St. Ignatius Loyola was once on board a ship in a severe storm when   
   the mast was broken off and all were weeping and trembling in   
   expectation of death. He alone was cheerful and fearless, remembering   
   that the winds and sea obey God and that without His permission,   
   tempests rise not, neither can they sink any ship, and choosing for   
   himself whatever fate God might choose for him.   
   ( "A Year with the Saints". October – Confidence)   
      
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